GENEVA - Hospitals are overwhelmed in east Congo's city of Goma, treating hundreds of patients with gunshot, mortar and shrapnel wounds while many dead bodies lay in the streets, U.N. and other ...

The United Nations and other aid agencies on Tuesday reported that dead bodies are scattered in the streets of Goma, and hospitals overwhelmed with patients with gunshot and shrapnel wounds.

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The statement also said 34 dead were returned from morgues inside Russia, where Kyiv last August mounted a shock offensive into Russia’s western Kursk region. Friday’s repatriation is at least the ...

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